skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Type in your WebGL script and see the results
Probably screenleap.
The onion have a solution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMQNvGilOVQ
I built the same concept for viral videos. Http://vvx.io - we should talk.
Hey thank you very much for your support, I will add this to the T&C to avoid any problem. Would you have more suggestion how might I promote this simply help each other facility?
Bitcoinary is genius, super cool! Signed up and will be doing a trade shortly. Thanks!
I had problems in the past but it seems to work correctly now. Has someone a close example of problems with it?
TPB's Facebook posts about this have been quite entertaining.

"Sorry for not fulfilling your pirate needs tonight.
It's ok if you cheat on us with another site, just once.
We know that you still love us, deep down in your cursed pirate heart. ♥"

http://www.facebook.com/ThePirateBayWarMachine
I wonder how many people downloading torrents understand that there is a real-time tracking service logging all their downloads?
Sure, I'm aware of this. My point was that GPL is almost as poisonous as a non commercial use restriction in terms of distributing software. GPL works great on the server where this isn't a concern, but doesn't work for almost any other commercial use case. Very arbitrary but at least very clear.
I think you should first focus on building big-enough community of people who'll create high quality, non-biased, not-spammy summaries. Without it you won't have anything to monetize. Eranation's ideas were interesting (in the area of financial incentives you could experiment with Mechanical Turk, maybe GitTip, MinuteBox etc. as well as BitCoin payments). However you also should check for other, non-financial motivators for creators. I guess that many bloggers and other people trying to build their online brand would be interested in it for clicks, social shares, Whuffies, Klout score impact etc. The another option worth testing could be some kind of intelligent gamification of the process. In that case browser extension would be handy as it could provide all the necessary tools like author profile, sharing buttons and so long. Good luck - I really hope to see your button everywhere soon, as it's great idea.
You are saying you would hire the accuser before her case is even sorted out? Why do you assume her version of events are true, and her employer's version false?

Just because you don't get the promotion you feel entitled to, doesn't mean you should sue your employer for discrimination.
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German government answers questions about contracts to build monitoring software
A trademark does not take ownership of general words or phrases from the people.

Except when that trademark is "Windows" or "Office" or "Word".
I hope that would be the case :)
this guy needs more xxx ...
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The black T-shirt crowd
Just the other day someone had forgotten one of her many shopping bags on The Tube. It'd be quite nice to reunite people with their items, however, given that there is no useable WiFi or mobile connection underground, how would you go about geotagging its location?? Manually estimate it above ground?
The Hemingway snippet is genius. Spot on.
I thought fun wasn't allowed on HN
The iPod was way ahead in terms of thickness, simplicity and battery life. Things that mattered. At the time it was a technical marvel, competing hard disk players were huge and clunky EG Creative nomad.

The iPhone was way ahead of Nokia Symbian phones in power of its web browser, display, touch sensitivity etc.
Regarding Skype, it is important to notice that the German authorities apparently use trojans to intercept Skype conversations. I am surprised that Skype in spite of its HQ in Europe apparently still doesn't offer direct access for authorities.
I'm not a YC founder so I'm sure those that are will be able to offer some specific advice but I know plenty of YC founders that have gone through this and I'm from the UK and applying for Winter 2013.

1. Usually companies that haven't incorporated outside of the US will register as a US company. If your visa situation isn't completely sorted it can be a slight deterrent to some investors but not enough to put anyone off. Usually not because you're not from the US but because getting kicked out of a country can put a founder in a tough place. There are many YC companies that do it every year and guys like Joel and Leo (AngelPad) from BufferApp raised their seed round for a US company from top investors and while they get their visa they've based their company in other countries.

2. There is a Visa for Angel Investors but I don't believe there is a visa doing the opposite. Of course if you have a degree your options open up considerably. It is technically somewhat possible to sponsor your own H1B but since you're a founder of the company and major shareholder, I doubt this would be accepted.

3. A lot of people I know go for the O-1A visa. Which is for Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement. If you can show getting into YC and success of your company has value to the US you will be able to say for up to three years at which point you can extend or look at your other options. It's not inexpensive or easy but is a good bet.

More info here: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b...
This statement from the last paragraph of the very interesting Economist magazine article submitted here is thought-provoking: "Bitcoins tend not to be very secure, says Richard Booth, a consultant at RSA, a cyber-security firm. As some users have found to their cost, hackers can sometimes steal Bitcoins from users’ online vaults. In the latest raid, on September 5th, hackers stole $250,000 in Bitcoins from Bitfloor, a large American exchange, causing it to shut down its operation." What does that say about the overall reliability of Bitcoins as a new form of currency?

A while ago I wrote that perhaps the greatest contribution the Bitcoin experiment will make to humankind is to teach you and me and our neighbors more about the realities of economics. And later I added that the Bitcoin experiment will also contribute to greater understanding of attack surfaces and online crime. Many of the ideas about how to mine Bitcoins, store Bitcoins, and trade with Bitcoins as a medium of exchange illustrate both the strengths and weaknesses of any other medium of exchange in a world full of human beings. Seeing the discussion of Bitcoins here on Hacker News reminds me of early online discussions in the 1990s of online payment systems such as PayPal, and the arguments beforehand that PayPal wouldn't have to invest a lot of time and effort (as it eventually did) building defenses against theft and fraud. If a weakness in a system is attached to a lot of money, the way to bet is to bet that someone will go looking for that weakness, even if you haven't thought of it.

AFTER EDIT: Here is a question for all the security-knowledgeable persons who participate here on Hacker News, a question once asked of the inventor of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). How expensive do you think it would be for the United States National Security Agency (or a comparable organization from another national government) to crack a Bitcoin store, given that we know that some Bitcoin caches have already been cracked?
The algorithm can be changed as long as 50%+ of the computers in the network agree to it. So if flaws are found it isn't the end of the currency.
I do this all the time:

drush up feature_name
git commit -a

this gives you a nice diff of the config in production v's code.

drush fd feature_name

sometimes i really need to make a fix in production (or its so trivial the overhead of a release would be just silly), make the change on production, then grab fresh db dump, stick it on dev box and run "drush up". today i did this to remove a link from a field in a view.
FTA:
"On the website Silk Road, a sort of eBay for drugs hidden in a dark corner of the web known as Tor[...]"

Tor isnt a dark corner of the web...
I always look for the "Print" button on such pages - as that shows the content on a single page.

If there's no Print option, I'm not bothering reading the thing, unless it contains info I absolutely need.
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That test is unlikely to happen. regular folks do not put their life savings into currencies or commodities. They put their life savings into banks.

And your savings account is denominated in ...?

(hint1: USD EUR JPY CAD AUD)
(hint2: The 'stuff' people exchange for goods and services)
(hint3: Currencies!)

You're right about commodities, though. Unless you are deliberately taking positions in commodity ETFs or futures contracts (something that a person is unlikely to be doing without knowing it), you are probably not taking on commodity exposure.
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> Like 99% of news reported computere glitch's it is some human mess up that caused it

If the system allowed the user to do something that impacted safetey in such a way, then the computer glitch is that the computer should stop that sort of thing happening. Human error happens a lot and you have to account for it in your designs.

Of course there are times when you have to trust the user because it is not practical to do those tests (in which case the human should have procedure to follow that mitigates the risk), and instances where the user wil override the checks (when the machines say "I really don't think you should do X because Y, click 'I understand the consequences of my propsosed action' to proceeed") - then it is genuinly human error is something goes wrong.
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Maybe not, but a $300 iPad would be enough to completely screw with Windows 8 device manufacturers just before they start releasing those tablets, as most seem to start at double that price.
> They don't compromise on a single letter

+1. I think that's why the Hemingway snippet works so perfectly. The tone both perfectly captures Hemingway's voice, and the design qualities of beautifully engineered code.

> I believe that learning to write better will make you a much better coder and communicator.

And again, yes.
Spotify, URL2PNG, Freshbooks, Pingdom, Linode, Balsamiq, Photoshop (I start and stop this one as I don't need photoshop every month)
I just found it thanks to you! I registered for it :)
Yes, we are working with the creator of CubeeCraft, Chris Beaumont. We're big fans of his work.
I'm no marketeer I'm afraid! A cheap way would be for you to search for folks on twitter posting information about lost/found items and point them to your site?
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The beauty of open source is that we have the ability to learn from the experiences of others. Many of the challenges expressed in these conversations are being met head on by the Drupal community. I disagree with many sentiments of the OP but also practice integrating different technologies, when appropriate, to get a job done ... The feedback in this thread is invaluable and highly appreciated.

There are technical solutions in the form of modules and organizational workflow solutions that can be used to solve most of the issues I see mentioned here. There are also a lot of false or mis-informed assertions. Thanks for the insight.
A big take-away for entrepreneurs in the developed world is the rapidly aging nature of our population - and the opportunities that may exist because of it.

The huge glut of baby-boomers retiring (while there are much fewer young people to support them/their institutions) is going to strain lots of existing systems (healthcare, retirement stuff, pensions, etc) - seems like a big opportunity for 'grey-power' software / tools.

Importantly, these upcoming retirees have at least a bit of fluency with software (compared to a generation ago), and at could least handle iPad-like tools (touch, big buttons, etc).

I mean, look at Canada's "pyramid" (http://populationpyramid.net/Canada/2010/) - a society with that kind of shifting demographic will need all kinds of new tools to help deal with the added strains.
Oddly enough, not blocked by SonicWall (at least in our config, which I would assume is fairly default-ish).
90% of people surveyed didn't know it's possible to search within a web page using ctrl+f. Yes, we really are that different.

Cite: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/crazy-...
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the code for the bolaño one is not so good, although the explanation improves it (i think all the others snippets give you a fair idea of what to expect in a book by the author; that really doesn't).

when i first skimmed the article i got down to that section, read the code, with a list of names, and expected something french and post-modern. was really surprised when i checked back to the title to see bolaño.

(if you haven't read him, i wouldn't start with 2666, but with the savage detectives, which is a really sweet, funny, smart novel. also, if you speak spanish as a second language, he's very easy to read in the original - a modern, simple, colloquial style, just like you're used to speaking.)

[edit: huh; i don't even remember the dream sequences at the start of 2666, so maybe my bad. will have to go back and re-read. edit2: oh, yeah, i do remember. ok... but there's nothing like that in any other book of his i have read. hmph. you might as well characterise his writing as a list of murders.]
If there were more in-depth documentaries about programmers, you would probably find the same types of personalities reign supreme...emotional, introverted, weird. If you consider yourself "normal" & "emotionally stable", then you probably aren't a very creative programmer.
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Are you referring to the BitTorrent tracker itself, or the fact that companies can and do scrape trackers to build their own databases for who knows what end?
[redacted snark]

You are right that it's often tactically the wrong decision to post about an ongoing dispute. I will give you that. I'd be surprised if any attorney would recommend for her to post on Quora about the termination while the suit was ongoing.

However, this one-sided "professionalism" whereby people are expected to keep the secrets of employers who fuck them over is disgusting. That expectation exists because there's a power relationship, and because society really hasn't advanced much out of the Dark Ages, and not for any good moral reason.
Purely a semantic aside but how do you characterize PETA as "ultra right wing" in any meaningful definition of that political term?
Just pulling quotes from the Wikipedia page, "he avoided complicated syntax and about 70 percent of the sentences are simple sentences — a childlike syntax without subordination."

Subordination is the key word, ie, limiting the amount of nesting. That's why the for quoted above is out, since there are two statements and an expression nested inside the for statement (i=2, i<size, and i++), and there are two sub-expressions nested inside the push call (result[i-1] and result[i-2]).

Going out on a limb, I'd say Hemmingway's writing is building up complex narrative using simple building blocks. The body of the for loop above is a single line, which does simple arithmetic, array indexing, and a method call all together. In contrast, each line in the while loop body does roughly one thing: first addition, then assignment, assignment again, then a method call.
with a 5th generation iPod Touch costing 299 I do not see why they would price a "mini" iPad at the same price. Perhaps as a 16gb model as the 32gb Touch is 299.
What service are you talking about? AFAIK tpb doesn't use trackers anymore, they rely on DHT.
Like this?

function fibs(size) {
return f();
function f() {
... implementation here ...
}
}
A nice simple observation that i hope would elicit matured discussions instead of a language flame war.
It seemed like a pretty obvious reference to 2666 to me. The first part of the book has a number of dream sequences where its characters will just list off philosophers and put them into groups and connect them with lines. Definitely took me a few days to get through that book.
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Iirc some startup hired rasmus lerdorf, the creator of php.
That's about all Vivek Wadhwa ever says. He never comes forward with any strong evidence on that issue, but only with anecdotes. I don't worry about it.
I stopped drinking two months ago because of acid reflux. Before that, I used to drink around 3-4 small cups a day.
I wonder how we determine similar 'activity' as far as normal currencies are concerned? Either it's related to money moving between accounts, or it's related to volumes on an exchange, or something else entirely, but surely those values are just as easily 'manipulated' as any of BTC.

Admittedly the volumes themselves dictate that me moving money from one bank account to another will have less of an impact on the final number, but then again, I'm always moving money between my different bank accounts, but never between my Bitcoin addresses. I obviously can't say for certain, but I don't think there's a meaningful number of users moving BTC between their wallets for no reason.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the others just merely clones of the original Bitcoin, using the same source code? I would still call Bitcoin the only currency, as it's the base they all share.
I'm not sure that was so much the attraction when PHP first started gaining traction given the existence of CGI.pm

From my experience in the 90s, most of the early adopters of PHP were more smitten with included PHP code in otherwise static HTML files. It was SSI++
Chrome has a Remote Desktop (beta) extension. All you need to do is point them to this link https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk... and have them give you a few numbers to connect. It works with Linux, Windows and Mac.
> If you find yourself writing large amounts of custom
> code in Rails, then either you are truly tackling a
> novel problem that no one has ever dealt with before,
> or you are simply unaware of the gem that you should
> be using.

Sounds like Perl - or any other mature language, though I have never seen one with that many libraries for anything I could think about.

The language that has the libraries I need is always the one I end up using.
Facebook has big target problems and fortunately has big target defence resources. That doesn't make it right for everybody.

1. If you are small people won't be using your brand as the bait in anything other than spear-phishing when your phishing detection won't work. Emails and password resets are pretty easy. If you need it twilio makes SMS resets pretty easy too but in most cases that is probably overkill.

2. There probably is some benefit here.

3. There are fairly simple and clear best practices that are reasonable for most sites. Most people aren't under targeted attack although they should put a reasonable amount of effort into a reasonable defensive system.

Facebook integration (or other 3rd party login) also brings additional risks as they become a potential attack vector. This may seem unlikely unless you consider the possibility of staff, contractors or app developers finding a way in.
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I wonder what countries like India and China will do -- There's a massive gender imbalance in those countries; and in a decade or two; there will 50 million men (in India alone) who are unable to find a mate. Ideas/suggestions/thoughts on this issue?

EDIT: I deduced the ~50 million statistic from the 1.07 sex ratio for the 15-64 age range reported by the CIA[1].

For China, it's amazingly 1.17 for the same age range (!!! WTH -- that translates to 170 million surplus men!). What are these countries going to do?

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
The companies scraping and tracking, including your ISP... There is no real use for the data right now (apart from a few countries with anti-download laws). In the not-so-far-away future I think this will change... Then they've got your (ip)number.
Yes, it's better than quad-core for that reason. Also smaller, lighter, uses less battery etc. We already have faster PCs; the achievement is doing so within the other constraints.

Yes, marketing is their greatest strength, but "marketing" includes more than advertising, more than design, it's also knowing what will be wanted, and making it happen. Jobs actually cited Sony as a great inspiration - and perhaps we forget now, but they did create the first commercially successful transistor radio and the walkman (also Trinitron TV and the first playstation, and a bunch of other stuff in their heyday). I would say these are close parallels to Sony with the iPod, and arguably the iPhone and iPad.

My point is that Apple doesn't do invention of new technology, but commercialization of technology. A great example is the mouse: PARC invented it, Apple commercialized it. I think it's a cool and impressive thing to commercialize technology, but it's no more than that (unless Apples starts doing fundamental research like PARC, Bell Labs and IBM used to do).
Why not?

An iPod touch is an absolutely awful substitute for a 7" tablet. The two are not comparable and totally different products.
Those bastards. How dare they publish their source code on terms we don't agree with.
What server applications that matter cannot be recompiled for ARM but will work effectively under emulation?
Halfway through reading about usability sins a gigantic popup yelled at me to install their iPad app.
I try to drink as little alcohol or coffee as possible, mostly water.
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You think they are gonna prosecute a few hundred thousand people? Seems unlikely...
My use of geographical locality was primarily a way to reduce scarcity. That being said, you are right in that many entities that seek domain names are not geographically locked. However, I would argue that the vast majority of companies are not globally active and are geographically tied to legal company entities and local laws.

The secondary problem here, which is more in tune with the original article, is that the US government "assumes" ownership and control of generic TLDs as a God given right. They assume legal control and can arbitrarily decide to close generic domains when the activities of that domain "contravenes" US law (or more often than not, simply annoys powerful lobbying groups).

That isn't right. I'm happy to see lots of generic TLDs being used rather than geographical ccTLDs, but just not in the hands of one country. Country TLDs solve those legal issues as well. Generic TLDs are governed by a country that has very specific ideas, pressure groups, and powerful companies, acting (often) out of sync with the rest of the world.
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"A massive douche"? You'll have to explain that one, because I've watched it, and he didn't appear "douchey" to me at all.
Solvers are somewhat popular in software security, both for automatically uncovering invariants (and exploitable lack of invariants), and also for modeling program binaries and solving for collections of basic blocks that can executed during a memory corruption attack to accomplish attacker goals.
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I know - I was just spitballing the minimum number, since guards require conditionals too. Though, portability aside, you have to agree that it's simply nicer, since it plainly states the intent without requiring a little dance each time.
So you'd prefer they wait until SHA-2 suffers weakness before starting to bring out SHA-3?